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Dalton Equips Varsity Football Team with Top-Rated Helmet

As the Dalton varsity football team opens up their 2018-19 season, you will notice a shiny new addition to their uniforms. Dalton is equipping all members of the team with the VICIS ZERO1 helmet. The decision to equip the entire team in the ZERO1 is part of a larger commitment to protect Dalton student-athletes with the safest and most technologically advanced equipment. Dalton joins over 1000 high school programs in addition to a significant number of professional and college teams that have made equipped their players in the ZERO1 helmet for the 2018 season.
The ZERO1 was ranked the top helmet according to the National Football League (NFL) and National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) performance testing and finished first in the 2018 Virginia Tech STAR Helmet Ratings. Additionally, the ZERO1 helmet was also named one of TIME Magazine's 25 Best Inventions of 2017. According to the company, the ZERO1 is the “most technologically advanced helmet on the market, designed to reduce impact forces with a highly engineered structure that differs from traditional football helmets. The ZERO1 has a deformable outer shell and a unique columnar layer designed to slow impact forces like a car bumper.”

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